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I had to take the tram today...

...as the back wheel of my bicycle was flat again. The valve of the new tube wasn't fitted correctly and leaks quite an amount of air. Luckily, I had a spare tube. I hope this one will last longer than just a fews days.

The bus route to hell...

...is not in service:

New Nemesis

After living without one for more than 15 years, my doctor suggested strongly recommended demanded to get a scale. So I bought one:

A Career in Telly

This is so true it isn't even funny anymore:

Installing the CAcert.org class 3 certificate on the N73

As it takes a while to find the right information through search engines, here's how to install a 3rd-party X.509 CA certificate to the Nokia N73 (and other S60 platform, 3rd edition or later, phones):

  • You'll need a DER encoded certificate, PEM doesn't work.
  • The web server with the certificate has to return content type application/x-x509-ca-cert

Unfortunately, CAcert.org's web server currently returns text/plain for the DER-encoded class 3 certificate. The documentation from Nokia describes how to install it by transferring the cert file to the phone. I haven't tried that, though. Instead, I simply copied the DER file to my own web server, which returns the correct content type, and downloaded it from there with the phone.

New Toy

Unpopped.

I fixed my bicycle anyway. It was a snake bite kind of hole in the tube, even though the pressure was okay. Well, before the tube popped, of course. However, the tube was quite old and most of the plasticiser was gone. And three centimeters between the asphalt and the tram tracks isn't good for tyres, rims and tubes. The city should fix the street at last.

Pop!

I just heard a silent "pop!" and next thing I knew was that I had a flat tyre. The tube just blew up. I was already on the way to the bicycle shop, but still one mile away. Originally, all I wanted to buy were some new brake pads and look for a new front lamp. Now I have two new tubes, a new tyre, a pair of rim tapes, the brake pads, a new mount for the existing lamp, and not enough time to fit it all this weekend.